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Name: GLENROSS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/07/1925
Completed: 08/1925
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1275
Dimensions: 2309grt, 248.1 x 43.7 x 22.9ft; (1925: 3219grt, 343.1ft); (1939: 2357grt, 248.1ft)
Engines: T3cyl (18, 30 & 49 x 36ins), 185nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 148134
History:
08/1925 Great Lakes Transportation Co Ltd, Midland, Ontario
1927 Canada Steamships Lines Ltd, Newcastle & Midland
1941 Renamed BATTLEFORD
1967 Bahamas Package Carriers Ltd (NE Roberts), Nassau
1967 Renamed REAL GOLD
1971 Antilles Line Ltd (Ship Sales Corp, Miami), Nassau
10/1974 Broken up
Comments: 1925: Lengthened to 343.1ft by Collingwood Shipbuilders after entering the Great Lakes
1939: Shortened to canal dimensions of 248.1 ft, due to unsatisfactory speed
1971: Laid up at Key West with boiler damage
10/1974: Broken up at Tampico by Laminadora Kreimermann SA


Above photo as BATTLEFORD copyright of JH Bascom

Above photo as BATTLEFORD copyright of Fred Miller II